@ZEPHYRA You asked how to cope. I don’t feel like I need to cope, I would never use that word, because I’m not bothered by living away from family. However, my advice would be, you need to build friends and “family” where you live. Maybe you are just feeling lonely? I’m assuming you are not married.
I’m curious how old you are and why you moved away?
I’m also curious to know if you have a family that has a lot of events going on? Weddings, babies being born, even funerals and illness. Or, even if they tend to get together regularly on Sundays or some sort of tradition that you regularly are missing something the family is doing.
Are your parents guilt tripping you into feeling bad about moving away?
Did you grow up always near family? From the age of 9 my parents, my nuclear family, lived 5 hours from the nearest relative. So, it doesn’t seem odd to me to live in another state. Most people I grew up with and most people who live where I live now have family who live in other states. As opposed to my friends in Michigan and Tennessee where family rarely moves away. Especially my friends in MI. A few of them the parents, when they retired, started coming to Florida for the winter.